By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we… — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well… — Ben Moreell Copy Share Image
There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
When he takes a penalty, Graham Alexander turns his foot into a spatula-type device — Mike Parry Copy Share Image
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under. — Alan Shearer Copy Share Image
Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which… — Richard Viguerie Copy Share Image
There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we… — Troy King Copy Share Image
One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
Why couldn't we put on a defense? I had seventeen witnesses standing outside the door. They just dropped the defense and went… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
[In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
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